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5 <br />• addition to the drill pads and roads indicated in Figure 2, a water line <br />tvill be run from wells on Stephens Gulch southeast to the mine across <br />sections 13 and 24. <br />In addition to a detailed reconnaissance of the four sections which <br />are to be directly impacted, Tlie Centuries o-+as contracted to conduct a <br />more generalized and less intensive survey of ground :+i thin a one mile <br />radius of the direct impact area. This work mainly involved private <br />! lands belonging to [hc 11orre1l family but did briefly touch on the south <br />boundary of the Gunnison National Forest. <br />` The total study area constituted a transec[ of the local environment <br />and included resources representing the major historical/cultural patterns <br />i <br />which have been active in the North Fork Valley from prehistoric times until <br />• the present day. As indicated in Figure 2, this transect begins in [he <br />. floor of the North Fork `Jalley of the Gunnison, traverses the foothills and <br />extends ~•+ell into the mountains to the north of the valley. <br />The North Fork of the Gunnison River is situated at an elevation of <br />about 5,600 ft. near the center of a valley tivhich measures roughly one- <br />half mile wide in the study area. Palco-environmental data are not seem- <br />.. ingly available for the valley floor, but indications are that the local <br />floral community v+as composed of lush native grasses interspersed with <br />Box Elder and what is locally referred to as "Valley Oak" at [he time of <br />White settlement in the 1880'5. One may reasonably suspe,:t [hat Cotton- <br />wood and willows r+ere also present in the local area as well. The climate <br />was presumably [yoical of the mountain valleys in [he Gunnison Country <br />where winters are harsh and the summer groo-+ing season is short in cam- <br />• <br />